Posted on 09/25/2010 3:59:36 AM PDT by South40
SANTA ANA – Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez said Friday that her now-famous remark about "Vietnamese" trying to take her seat had been misinterpreted but apologized if it caused any offense.
She did not, however, apologize for calling her Republican challenger Van Tran – himself an immigrant from Vietnam – anti-immigrant. Instead, she accused him of using her words to "take a cheap political shot."
Sanchez told an interviewer earlier this month on Spanish-language television that "the Vietnamese and the Republicans" were trying to wrest control of her seat in Congress. She described Tran in the same interview as "very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic."
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
In this cycle she is now dead.
Imagine that. They’re trying to steal the seat that she stole from B-1 Bob Dornan. Karma bites.
How dare you use my words against me!
“”the Vietnamese and the Republicans” were trying to wrest control of her seat in Congress”
Geez, what an arrogant and bigoted b***h this woman is. Political campaigns are not about taking someone’s “seat” but offering what they feel is better representation for the voters to decide who is best for them.
Happy feet will ensue when this creaton is shown the door.
creaton; (urban dictionary used on purpose) A person who is a TOTAL idiot and a pain in the arsche.
From Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Sanchez
Background
Sanchez was born in California and graduated from Katella High School in Anaheim in 1978. She received her undergraduate degree from Chapman College in Orange in 1982, obtained her MBA from American University in Washington, DC in 1984, and was a financial analyst until entering the House. Sanchez describes herself as growing up a “shy, quiet girl” who did not speak English. She credits government with much of her success in public life.[2] Her father was a unionized machinist and her mother worked as a secretary. Her Mexican immigrant parents had seven children, all of whom went to college.[3] Sanchez joined the United Food and Commercial Workers when she worked as an ice cream server in high school, and she received a union scholarship to college.
Entry and life in politics
In 1994 Sanchez ran unsuccessfully as a moderate Republican for the Anaheim City Council under her then married name, Loretta Brixey. In 1996, she changed parties and recast herself as a moderate Democrat to run in the 46th District against six-term Republican incumbent Bob Dornan.
The bitterly fought race saw Sanchez charge that Dornan was out of touch with his constituency, especially after a distracting run for the 1996 Republican Presidential nomination. The 46th had always had a Democratic tilt, but became even more Democratic after the 1990 census when it received a considerably larger number of Hispanics than had previously been in the district. Sanchez won by 984 votes, and Dornan contested the election, alleging that many votes were cast by people who were not American citizens.
A Congressional investigation found evidence that 624 votes were indeed cast by non-citizens. An additional 124 votes had already been thrown out by California officials. These votes were not enough to throw Sanchez’s victory into doubt, so the investigation was halted and the outcome was upheld by a Republican-controlled Congress,[4] making Sanchez the first American of Mexican heritage to represent Orange County in Congress. Dornan continues to assert that illegal voter registration of non-citizens was decisive in Sanchez’s victory. In consultation with the INS, the House committee identified as many as 4,700 questionable registration affidavits;[5] however, the probe was dropped before these affidavits were investigated. As Article I Section V of the Constitution of the United States provides that “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members” the investigation was without binding authority.
Uh huh.
She apologized for the misinterpration of what she said then continues on by being racist. Whats wrong with being a Vietnamese immigrant? He’s legal, so why is that even an issue, other than you don’t like him because he’s vietnamese? Sound racist to me
This slut who had an affair with a defense lobbyist should be kicked out of office. However, she has the illegal alien vote in her district because of her phony “Hispanic” heritage.
Back in 1975, my sister in law worked at a welfare office in the San Diego area, where a lot of Vietnamese refugees were initially settled after fleeing the Stalinist take-over. The state naturally provided the usual help for new arrivals, including cash payments, rent subsidies and the like. It was a big payout for a while but the Vietnamese disappeared from the welfare rolls pretty quickly.
A few months later though, some of the Vietnamese started drifting back into the office. They weren’t there to ask for more goodies. They had gotten jobs and they were there to pay the state back for the benefits they had received when they first arrived. Nobody knew what to tell them. The word eventually got around that you didn’t have to pay it back, at least not directly.
Mr. Tran is not so much anti-immigrant as anti-freeloader, which is anathema to someone like Sanchez.
Thanks T F, great little reminder article. Did enjoy B-1 Bob. I will enjoy even more when the arrogant usurper, and likely vote cheat, gets bounced out of the seat for incompetence by a Vietnamese immigrant.
From the wiki bio:
“Sanchez describes herself as growing up a ‘shy, quiet girl’ who did not speak English.”
Baloney! Sanchez is proficient in Spanish but it is VERY obvious she is not a native speaker. This woman is as phony as Marlon Brando’s “Indian princess.”
One of my favorite people ever, B-1 Bob.
:)
I agree, but am not close enough to CA to be that familiar with her personal traits.
I was aware that she beat Bob Dornan in an election where Dem voter fraud was a serious problem.
I thought it interesting that she originally ran for office as a Republican with an anglo last name (married name = Brixey), but was defeated. She then apparently was divorced or stopped using her married name and was elected as a Dem. (wiki stated but I question that she is a “blue dog” Dem)
Wiki can be an OK source, but the people who started it are not. This makes it often an unreliable (but handy) source. The problem with Wiki is accuracy? and spin.
I “love” when a leftist says her explicit words have been misinterpreted. Balderdash!
B1 Bob was a bit over the top at times but he is needed now more than ever.
Her, and any other elected official that chooses to represent only a racial or ethnic subset of their their constituencies (i.e., every member of the Black Caucus, or the Hispanic caucus) has NO PLACE serving in an office where they are expected to serve ALL the people.
And interestingly enough, when I listened to this female dog refer to her fellow hispanic persons as "hispanic" and not latinos. Hilarious.
Tell that scum to stfu! And her slime mexican masters!
I get my nails done in a salon owned by people from Vietnam. All the people who work there are Vietnamese. They tell me they are US citizens, they vote, and they consider this the “land of opportunity”. They work very hard, very long hours. My nail tech and I talked about Obamacare and welfare in general. My nail tech said that illegal immigration is our fault as we offer too many “incentives” for people to come here, and who wouldn’t want to come to the US? She thinks Obamacare is wrong because in Vietnam, you have to work for everything. She just expects to work very hard, and she works at the nail salon every day of the week while studying to be a pharmacist. I love these people for their attitude (as well as the service they provide).
From another OC Register story:
• Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez on Univision (translated from Spanish): “The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, (trying) to take this seat – this seat (from which) we have done so much for our community – to take this seat and give it to this Van Tran, who is very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic.”So, what's wrong with the translation. Or was the problem that because it was in Spanish we were supposed to treat it like when adults S-P-E-L-L words in front of children to hide what they are talking about.(“Los Vietnameses y los Republicanos están con una intensidad de quitar este puesto, este puesto que ya nosotros hemos hecho tanto para nuestra comunidad, quitarnos este puesto y darselo a este Van Tran, que es muy anti-inmigrante y muy anti-Hispano.”)
I also like the "apologized if it caused any offense". Real apologies never have the word "if" in them. "If" is for justifications and rationalizations, not apologies.
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